Monday update: Some readers have been unable to submit Comments since Thursday. Tech support is working on this. So — I will leave this post open until we get the issue solved, so that everyone can participate. Sorry for the inconvenience! Shelly was the winner of last month’s “Love the House You’re In” custom collage by our collage artist laureate Mel Kolstad. To win our June contest: Leave a Comment sharing, “What I am doing for my summer vacation?” This contest rewards regular readers — I will pick a winner Monday morning.Please read all the rules here before entering, they all apply.
Meanwhile, Mel explains this month’s collage:
What an inviting home! Shelly sent multiple views of her gorgeous home for me to use and I chose this angle so that I could incorporate all of the beautiful foliage. I love how it frames the house in luscious greens. And I love the sprawling ranch style – so very late 50s and SO lovely!
Thank you, Mel. You can experience more of Mel’s world at her blog: Ephemeraology
Jenny says
We’re going to try to go to Michigan in August. I say “try” because we’ve yet to save a dime for our trip, but I refuse to give up hope. I need a vacation in the worst way. If not, we’ll just take a few days and decompress here on our homestead, which is still a nice place to be in my opinion.
Pattie says
What am I doing for my summer vacation? Trying to balance a gentle reworking of my home with making sure that I hit a good number of fun things to do with my family!
Wendy M. says
We’re planning camping trips around the state (Oregon). I want to get my kids down to Crater Lake this year…we went every summer when I was a kid, as it was a day trip from where I grew up.
The rest of our summer is dedicated to working around the house…the big job is painting the interior! It is currently all white (except for the painted woodwork that has turned yellow with age) and it really needs a change. I’m currently obsessing about which colors to choose! 🙂
JamieAbe says
“What I am doing for Summer Vacation?” Hmm, well….I live in the great state of Texas, and down here it’s been summer (HOT) for over a month now. Some time in April when this Texas summer heat kicked in our AC decided to kick out. We moved into this 1956 beaut a little over a year and a half ago, and are in the beginning stages of a total reno, and we’ve spent the last several weeks at 95+ degrees in the house. So, yesterday, some really unfortunate souls spent their day in my very tight, very hot, very low pitched attic and today I am blessed with an, oh-so-sweet, AC. So, my summer vacation just might be spent here in my house with my nice cool air. Oh, and working on all that renovation stuff.
Melanie says
What a lovely collage!
I don’t have “summer” vacation either. Summer is our super busy time at work so I work extra days. My husband has busy times at work that are different than mine and the only time we both have time off is the dead of winter when we don’t want to go anywhere. Hoping to get in a couple day trips with my daughters this summer.
I also have to spend some time this summer getting a coat of paint on the front of the house and new siding on the back.
Kelly says
I have traveled to San Franciso from Birmingham, AL to help clean up my parents’ home…. trips to the dump, donations to charities and lots & lots of yard work… On the bright side, they have some incredible Mid Cent pieces, so unearthing these has been fun! hope to win
eudora says
I don’t have an actual vacation, either, but I flee the IL prairie for Maine at the first chance where I spend my time when I’m not working restoring my “other” mid-century house (mid 18th century, that is).
Jeanne says
“What I am doing for my summer vacation?” Well, I don’t really have a summer vacation, as it’s the busy season at work and try not to take many – if any – days off. Not to be a downer, but I’m going through a divorce this summer. So I am enjoying all my additional new duties around the house like cutting the lawn and I actually cleaned my gutters last weekend. 🙂
On an “up” note – I refinanced my home so my 1952 bungalow is all mine! And I’m spending my spare time doing projects around the house. I finished painting the spare bedroom and this weekend need to install the 2″ aluminum blinds and cream pinch pleats (JCPenney) that I purchased a while ago. Next project is stripping the wallpaper in the bathroom (nothing cool or retro) and painting it. Hoping to do some painting, closet re-do and finishing touches to my knotty pine bedroom closer to fall. I have plenty to keep me busy!
Amy Kehoe says
We’ll be spending the last 2 weeks of August at Clark’s Landing, Lake Winnie, NH. Clarks landing is a colony of cottages on the lake that opened in the 1950’s and is still going strong!
Elizabeth Mary says
In 1985 I moved full-time to “the country” AND became a freelancer. At that time the idea of a “summer vacation” just ceased to exist for me. I now take my “vacation days” when they fall in my lap and grab and enjoy them on a whim. So, I am not complaining.
But, this summer I am enjoying the results of two house projects from the winter and spring. First, I finally gave up the 1967 GE electric range and replaced it with a gas range and I am finally REALLY enjoying cooking again as well as the extra counter and cupboard space that came along with putting a 30″ stove in a space previously used by a 40″ one. Second, the hard winter was the final hammer on my slowly disintegrating front entrance and that had to be restored. A beautiful job was done and the entrance is better than it has been since I bought the house in 2003. It is now a stone and concrete thing of beauty that was joined by a bluestone walkway Together they have renedered me truly “house proud” and put a smile on my face every day.